This is xsh - an XML Editing Shell
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Copyright (c) 2002 Petr Pajas
xsh is a powerfull command-line XML (DOM) editing tool/programming
language in the manner of Unix shell interpreters and line-oriented
text editors like ed. It can be used either interactively or for
batch-mode XML processing.
Features:
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- work with multiple DOM trees at once
- XPATH navigation (filesystem-like) navigation within a DOM tree
- copy/move nodes within a DOM tree or between two DOM trees
- node deletion
- node creation (element, attribute, text, cdata, comment,
well-balanced chunk)
- XPATH search and XML listing of nodes matched with XPATH
- XPATH-based conditional statements, while statement
- foreach statement allowing usage of relative XPATH expressions
- command output filtering with unix pipe, for example
xsh> list //word | grep [A-Z] | less
to read a list all word elements containing chars from [A-Z] in less
- use of system commands (!ls) like in ftp
- XSLT transformation
- validation
- textual and node-list variables
- user-defined procedures
- access to perl and shell commands
- extensive help
- and more
Instalation:
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Download and install all required perl modules. See INSTALL for a
list. To install xsh itself, check PREFIX in config.mk and type `make
install'. If you don't trust make-files, read INSTALL for details on
manual installation.
Usage:
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run `xsh -i' from your terminal and type `help | less' to find
out what to do next.
Licence:
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of either:
a) GPL - GNU General Public Licence - Version 2
See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html or LICENCE file included in
XSH distribution package
b) the "Perl Artistic License"
See Artistic file included in XSH distribution package